The Life and Casualty Company

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The Life and Casualty Company

by rsarashi » Sun Apr 30, 2017 9:39 am
The Life and Casualty Company hopes that by increasing its environmental fund revenues to $1.2 billion, that it has set aside enough to pay for environmental claims and no longer has to use its profits and capital to pay those claims bit by bit, year by year.

A) that it has set aside enough to pay for environmental claims and no longer has
B) enough has been set aside with which environmental claims can be paid and it will have no longer
C) it has set aside enough for payment of environmental claims and thus no longer having
D) enough has been set aside to pay for environmental claims, thus no longer having
E) it has set aside enough to pay for environmental claims and will no longer have

OAE

Please explain.

Also please explain that in OA don't we need semicolon or conjunction before IT?

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by Ali Tariq » Mon May 01, 2017 12:34 am
Also please explain that in OA don't we need semicolon or conjunction before IT?
No!

by increasing its environmental fund revenues to $1.2 billion is an initial modifier modifying subject (it)of the clause it has set aside enough to pay for environmental claims.

Structure of the sentence under discussion is:
Subject verb Object.
Object is a that clause.
That clause itself has an initial modifier by increasing...


OA:
The Life and Casualty Company hopes that by increasing its environmental fund revenues to $1.2 billion,it has set aside enough to pay for environmental claims


The Life and Casualty Company is subject.
hopes is a verb.
that by increasing its environmental fund revenues to $1.2 billion,it has set aside enough to pay for environmental claims is an object of verb hopes .

that by increasing its environmental fund revenues to $1.2 billion,it has set aside enough to pay for environmental claims is a noun clause.

Can noun clause serve the purpose of noun?
Absolutely.

Can noun clause, thus, be an object of verb?
Absolutely.
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by Ali Tariq » Mon May 01, 2017 12:43 am
The Life and Casualty Company hopes that by increasing its environmental fund revenues to $1.2 billion, that it has set aside enough to pay for environmental claims and no longer has to use its profits and capital to pay those claims bit by bit, year by year.

A) that it has set aside enough to pay for environmental claims and no longer has
B) enough has been set aside with which environmental claims can be paid and it will have no longer
C) it has set aside enough for payment of environmental claims and thus no longer having
D) enough has been set aside to pay for environmental claims, thus no longer having
E) it has set aside enough to pay for environmental claims and will no longer have
by verbing( prep+verbing), when used as an initial modifier, must be followed by a subject: A,B, and D are not followed by a subject and thus are out.

and signals ll-ism: We don't have one one in C.

E is the answer.
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